Fw: [New post] Ahmadiyya Muslim Community claims that the Messiah has come

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On Thursday, January 16, 2014 10:49 PM, The Muslim Times <donot...@wordpress.com> wrote:

Salma Javid Khan posted: "Source: examiner.com Islam is an Arabic word which means peace but whenever one wishes to speak about Islam as a religion of peace, the question naturally springs to mind that whereas there are so many religions in the world such as Judaism, Christianity" New post on The Muslim Times Ahmadiyya Muslim Community claims that the Messiah has come by Salma Javid Khan Source: examiner.com Islam is an Arabic word which means peace but whenever one wishes to speak about Islam as a religion of peace, the question naturally springs to mind that whereas there are so many religions in the world such as Judaism, Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, etc., when it comes to finding out whether Islam is a religion of peace, why should Islam be the odd one out? One reason for this is that a few years after the beginning of Islam, anti-Islamic powers began a propaganda that Islam is a religion of extremism and violence and wants to compel others into belief by means of the sword. This, of course, is incorrect. In the beginning, the Muslims of Makkah suffered persecution but they remained silent. Finally, they migrated to Madinah but there too the disbelievers hounded the Muslims and forced upon them a battle to which I will revert later. The proof against those opponents who allege that Islam was spread by the sword is that although the disbelievers of Makkah raised all sorts of objections, yet history stands witness to the fact that the people of Makkah themselves never complained that the Muslims had used the sword against the disbelievers to compel them to change their faith. Secondly, what has given Islam a bad name is an ugly and awful image of extremism presented, whether knowingly or unwittingly, by some Muslim groups and organizations, and these groups unfortunately had personal vested interests. In order to see a religion’s beauties or its defects, justice requires that you should ...continue reading at examiner.com Salma Javid Khan | January 16, 2014 at 7:14 am | URL: http://wp.me/p1ugkN-yds Comment    See all comments Unsubscribe to no longer receive posts from The Muslim Times. Change your email settings at Manage Subscriptions. Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: http://www.themuslimtimes.org/2014/01/religion/islam/ahmadiyya-muslim-community-claims-that-the-messiah-has-come